Password Specification Errors

Error and Warning Messages > Password Specification Errors

The following error messages can result from not specifying the password correctly.  Check the notes below to determine the reason.

Invalid Password

A password must be a word or phrase up to 32 characters.  The password must conform to the following:

•any leading or trailing spaces are ignored.

•the password can be any phrase up to 32 characters in length.

•embedded spaces are permitted and significant, ie:

      hello there     (one space) and,

      hello  there    (two spaces) are all considered to be different.

•case is significant, ie:  

      hello there        ,

      Hello There       , and

      HELLO THERE     are all considered to be different.

•only printing characters in the range 20h (space) to 7Fh (~) are permitted.  The additional European language characters such as è and ñ cannot be used in pass-phrases.

Password Not Verified

One of the password fields was left blank. You must fill in both password fields

Password and confirm are different

The password you specified in the first field does not match that in the verification field.

General Password Notes

If you don't want the current password to be changed, leave both fields blank.  If you want the password feature to be disabled, enter zero (0) in both fields.  

Do not forget your password!  If you do, you will be unable to alter the user data, and in the case of the Multi-trip, Scientific and LCD models, you will be unable to reuse them.

See also:

Password

User data

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